Thursday, at an administrative committee meeting, Horry County Administrator Danny Knight said his staff would likely recommend property tax increases for next year’s budget.

It was a packed house at Tuesday night’s Horry County Council meeting as residents, business owners, and other concerned citizens crowded in to council chambers to hear votes on a number of hot-button issues—including expansion at Myrtle Beach International Airport.

Keith Van Winkle may have come very close to beating incumbent Marion Foxworth for the Horry County Council seat representing Carolina Forest, but it wasn’t enough.

Dozens of people crowded in to Horry County Council chambers for the second meeting of the Ad Hoc committee on bike rallys.

The Horry County Ad Hoc Committee will consider making changes to the way the county handles “Bike Weeks” next year.

At Tuesday night’s council meeting, Rick Ott, with MB Kahn construction, a firm hired by council, presented a plan on terminal expansion at the Myrtle Beach international airport.

A Horry County councilman charged with loitering for prostitutes last October won’t go to trial until January 2009. Marion Foxworth’s trial was set for the week of October 20.

In the first meeting of an ad hoc committee formed to focus on the Grand Strand bike rallies, the four member committee chose councilman Kevin Hardee as chair.

Council members Brent Schulz, Kevin Hardee, James Frazier and Bob Grabowski were appointed to the committee.

During the Horry County Council meeting Tuesday evening, Council Chair Liz Gilland announced the Myrtle Beach International Airport will lower its landing fees from $1.97 to 50 cents per 1000 pounds of weight. The new program starts September 1.

The public will have the chance to hear about the terminal enhancement project alternatives during a series of public information meetings starting next week.

The Myrtle Beach International Airport is going to get a face-lift. The discussion over how and when that will happen was the focus of Thursday night’s airport advisory committee meeting.

A biker-paloozza on the south end of the Grand Strand had people rocking the night away. The Suck Bang and Blow Biker bar on US 17 Bypass in Murrells Inlet played host to the concert to show support for the spring and fall Harley-Davidson weeks on the Grand Strand.

Dozens of people packed council chambers in anticipation of discussion about the May bike rallies. Although there was no formal item on the agenda, more than a half dozen people spoke out during the public comment section.

Monday night’s regularly scheduled Horry County Council meeting was anything but regular. Hundreds of bikers converged at the meeting in a show of support of the May bike rallies on the Grand Strand.